# Ernest Lawrence Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003128`
- **School name**: Ernest Lawrence Middle
- **Location**: Chatsworth, CA 91311
- **Address**: 10100 Variel Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.25340, -118.59240
- **Phone**: (818)678-7900
- **Website**: http://lawrencems.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,076
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Blue
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.1% proficient — 991 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.7% (277 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.2% (136 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (10 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 164 students
- **English Learners**: 12.0% — 129 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 99 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,209
- **Federal share**: $3,434
- **State + local share**: $15,775
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,072
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,064
- **Poverty rate**: 9.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,789
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.4 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 16
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 58
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.56 miles (OWENSMOUTH WEST VALLEY PLAYHOUSE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Stoney Point Continuation** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Chatsworth Charter High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Germain Academy For Academic Achievement** — 0.7 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 24.7%)
- **William Tell Aggeler Opportunity High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Aggeler Community Day** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Chatsworth Charter High** — 0.4 mi away, 51.95% (this school: 49.05%)
- **Superior Street Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 54.1% (this school: 49.05%)
- **Our Community Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 67.9% (this school: 49.05%)
- **Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 49.05%)
- **Topeka Charter School For Advanced Studies** — 2.6 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 49.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Chatsworth Charter High** — 0.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Superior Street Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Our Community Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Topeka Charter School For Advanced Studies** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ernest-lawrence-middle-chatsworth/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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